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Tako Ventures

Founders Larry Ellison

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.48
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 3
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
  • CRM
  • Cloud Computing
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Larry Ellison.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Tako Ventures, startups are often financed by StarVest Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Sunrise Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are StarVest Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by StarVest Partners, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Biotechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Oracle-NetSuite, Theranos, Quark Pharmaceuticals.

The important activity for fund was in 2006. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2007. This Tako Ventures works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoTX Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$45M19 Feb 2020 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Theranos

Biotechnology
Consumer
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Monitoring Equipment
$28M17 Nov 2006 Palo Alto, California, United States

A4Vision

3D Technology
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$4M27 Oct 2004 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Turin Networks

Connectivity Products
Fiberoptic Equipment
Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$50M30 Jan 2002 California, United States

NetSuite

Cloud Computing
CRM
iOS
SaaS
Software
$20M20 Jun 2000 Redwood Shores, California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.48
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NeoTX Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$45M19 Feb 2020 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Theranos

Biotechnology
Consumer
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Monitoring Equipment
$28M17 Nov 2006 Palo Alto, California, United States

A4Vision

3D Technology
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$4M27 Oct 2004 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Turin Networks

Connectivity Products
Fiberoptic Equipment
Internet
Telecommunications
Wireless
$50M30 Jan 2002 California, United States

NetSuite

Cloud Computing
CRM
iOS
SaaS
Software
$20M20 Jun 2000 Redwood Shores, California, United States
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